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HISTORICAL ANNOTATION 669

owned by Edward Lloyd V. Plantation records indicate that Denby, a prime field hand,
died sometime during the year 1822. Return Book, 1 January 1822, 1 January 1823,
Land Papers--Maintenance of Property, Land Volume 39, reel 10, Lloyd Family
Papers, MdHi; Preston, Young Frederick Douglass, 72-73, 213.
53.37-38 St. Michaels] The town of St. Michaels, Talbot County, Maryland, was
incorporated in 1805 by the Maryland General Assembly. It is believed to have been
established early in the seventeenth century, although the exact date has been debated,
one account placing the building of a Reformed Church on that site in 1672. Located
on the Miles River, the town became the local place of embarkation for vessels bound
for Baltimore. Tilghman, Talbot County, 2:375-77, 381-85.
54.5 Thomas Lambdin] Thomas H. W. Lambdin (c. 1807-?) had labored at a
number of trades by 1850; shipwright, schoolteacher, town bailiff for St. Michaels
(1848), and miller (1850). In 1850 he was married, had five young children, and
owned real estate valued at $1,000. In a rebuttal to Douglass's negative characterization,
a Maryland friend described Lambdin as "too good-natured and harmless to
injure any person but himself." Thompson, "To the Public--Falsehood Refuted";
Tilghman, Talbot County, 2:395.
54.12 Mrs. Giles Hicks] No court records of this murder have been found.
Douglass probably learned of this incident from his wife Anna Murray Douglass who
grew up in Caroline County. A Mr. and Mrs. Giles Hicks resided in Caroline County,
Maryland, in 1820. 1820 U.S. Census, Maryland, Talbot County, 92; Preston, Young
Frederick Douglass, 74.
54.34 Beale Bordley] John Beale Bordley (1800-82) was the son of Matthias
Bordley (1757-1828) and the grandson of John Beale Bordley (1727-1804), a noted
agriculturalist and Revolutionary War era patriot from Maryland. Often called simply
Beale Bordley, John Beale Bordley was born on his father's Wye Island estate, across
the river from the Lloyd plantation, and remained there until his mid-twenties, when
he moved to Philadelphia to study law with Pennsylvania Chief Justice John Bannister
Gibson. Quickly tiring of the law, Bordley developed a very successful career as a
portrait painter of prominent figures in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and elsewhere. A
number of his paintings are held by the Maryland Historical Society. Baltimore
American and Commercial Advertiser, 14 March 1882; Francis Sims McGrath,
Pillars of Maryland (Richmond, Va., 1950), 393; idem. "A Letter to Eileen," MdHM,
24:306 (December 1929); Eugenia Calvert Holland and Louisa MacGill Gary,
comps., "Miniatures in the Collection of the Maryland Historical Society," MdHM,
51:342, 346, 353 (December 1956); Anna Wells Rutledge, "Portraits Painted before
1900 in the Collection of the Maryland Historical Society," MdHM, 41:35-36, 43
March 1946).
56.16 the good Samaritan] The good Samaritan, mentioned in Luke 10:33, generally
refers to a kind and helpful person. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed., Brewer's
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, ed. John Ayto (New York, 2005), 598; Freedman,
Anchor Bible Dictionary, 5:149-50.